The Melrose Public School district just north of Boston was among the first to make the MassCore course of study a requirement. “We’re asking more of students,” said Margaret Adams, the district’s chief academic officer. “If we help and support them and give them the tools to be successful, they rise to the occasion every time.”

either that or fitting Denise pope research.. no?

The Springfield Public Schools put the policy in place for the graduating class of 2013. “We did not want our students’ high school studies to be a barrier to their future,” said Yolanda Johnson, the district’s director of student support services. “If we were ever going to improve our college-going and college-completion rate, this is what we were going to have to do.

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